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River Welland polluted by sewage 447 times in 2025 - lasting 4,912 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Welland in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Welland GREAT EASTON(LEICS) STW 111 1,895 100
Anglian Water River Welland DEEPING WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 53 788 99.2
Anglian Water River Welland MKT HARBOROUGH WATER RECYCLING CNTR 48 652 99.5
Anglian Water River Welland GLOOSTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 44 499 99.9
Anglian Water River Welland MARKET HARBOROUGH-RIVERSIDE ROAD 17 184 100
Anglian Water River Welland LUBENHAM SPS 19 167 100
Anglian Water River Welland STOKE ALBANY STW 12 152 100
Anglian Water River Welland WESTON BY WELLAND STW 15 139 99.6
Anglian Water River Welland DRAYTON 22 95 65.5
Anglian Water River Welland SSO WOTHORPE 16 85 99.9
Anglian Water River Welland SPALDING STW 14 66 100
Anglian Water River Welland MARKET HARBOROUGH SOUTH CSO 14 56 98.6
Anglian Water River Welland ASHLEY SPS 13 45 99.5
Anglian Water River Welland STAMFORD-HUDDS MILL TPS 3 35 96.1
Anglian Water River Welland WELLAND ROAD SPS 4 14 100
Anglian Water River Welland COLLYWESTON STW 2 11 100
Anglian Water River Welland SIBBERTOFT STW 26 9 99.2
Anglian Water River Welland TINWELL SPS 4 9 100
Anglian Water River Welland STAMFORD - CASTLE STREET CSO 10 4 100
Anglian Water River Welland GRETTON WRC 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Welland SPALDING-ALBION STREET PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Welland SSO ST ANDREWS CHURCH 0 0 99.6

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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